Pair of George IV Old Sheffield Plate Wine Coolers, bearing the crest for Earl of Leicester, c1825

Catalog#:

5791

Artist:

Not Available

Category:

Silver, Metal & Vertu

SubType:

Silver

Origin:

England-UK

Era:

19th Century

Height:

10.25 inches

Width:

10.25 inches

Width Note:

Over Handles

PAIR GEORGE IV MELON FORM OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE WINE COOLERS

England, c1820-30, crested for Earl of Leicester

Of quite heavy weight, each ovoid melon-lobed body raised on a quatrefoil lobed foliate cast and chased base, and sided by two up-curving stem form handles issuing from acanthus leaves, below a straight neck crested on each side; the removable collar with cast floral and foliate rim above a tinned interior with a separate liner which is silvered on the interior and set on a raised ring; the crest, an ostrich on a chapeau, in mouth a horseshoe

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